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• Transmission, Formation, and the Future(s) of Psychoanalysis

  • When
    October 05, 2024
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  MPSI presents a Virtual Panel Discussion and you're invited.

  This panel, co-organized by Rafael Cohen and Corbin Quinn with support from the MPSI Program Committee, will consider formation from multiple perspectives and explore the various strata at which it occurs. How, we ask, does formation function intrapsychically, in one’s personal analysis, in the encounter with psychoanalytic theory, in clinical work, in supervision, at our institutes, in our journals, and in our professional communities? Throughout, we will attend to historical and persisting contradictions between psychoanalytic principles and the material forms that training and transmission have assumed. Finally, panelists will offer their thoughts on the future of psychoanalytic formation and gesture towards new and creative ways of thinking about transmission and formation. 

  Meet the Panelist:

  Nate Koser, PhD, LPC, LPCC, is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Ohio, and an Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (SPFLF). Nate is also adjunct faculty of the Clinical College of Colorado, and member of the Colorado Analytic Forum. 
  

  Jamieson Webster, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York, Part-Time Faculty at The New School for Social Research, and Faculty and Board Member of Pulsion International Institute. She is the author most recently of the forthcoming book, On Breathing (Catapult, 2025). 

  Jed Wilson, MSW, LICSW, is a psychoanalyst and a founding member of the Center for the Clinical Arts. He is in private practice in New Hampshire.

  Respondents:

  Rafael Cohen is a psychoanalyst in formation, practicing with adults. He is a member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field, and a faculty member and co-chair of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

  Corbin Quinn is a therapist in full-time private practice. He previously taught and wrote about French literature and film. He is currently a faculty member in MPSI's Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program and serves on the advisory board of the Psychotherapy Center.

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• A Weekend with Charles Levin, PhD of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

  • Start
    November 02, 2024
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    9:30 AM
  • End
    November 03, 2024
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    12:00 PM

  

  About Charles Levin: 

  Charles Levin, Ph.D., FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst in private practice in Montreal. He has served over many years in a variety of capacities at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, including director of training and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is currently on the International Advisory Board of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. In addition to clinical psychoanalysis, his work focuses on issues related to culture, aesthetics, and psychoanalytic ethics. His publications include ‘The mind as an internal object,’ Psychoanalytic Quarterly (2010), Art in the offertorium: Narcissism, psychoanalysis and cultural metaphysics (Rodopi, 2012) and the edited volume Social aspects of sexual boundary trouble in psychoanalysis (Routledge), which received an award from the APA Division 39 in 2021.

  DAY 1:
  

  Saturday, November 2, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm | Location TBD 

  Is Anti-Democratic Politics Organized Crime?: Democracy, The ‘Rule Of Law,’ And Psychoanalysis Or The ‘Good Object’ Reconsidered

  The sudden eruption of Donald Trump into the mainstream of American politics alarmed the mental health community. Ensuing psychiatric descriptions of Mr. Trump as a malignant narcissist, anti-social personality, or dangerous psychopath, were very well-supported by the public record, even if these diagnoses violated the so-called “Goldwater rule.” But they remain strangely beside the point and have proved politically ineffectual. Why? What is going on?

  After framing the concept of criminality from a psychoanalytic perspective, with brief discussions of Freud, Klein, Bion and Rosenfeld, I shall argue that within the terms of democracy, certain forms of ‘politics’ are more usefully defined as criminal, even as they are extremely difficult to prosecute within the spirit of the democratic rule of law. To help illustrate these ideas, my presentation will include a brief history of post-Nixonian Republicanism, together with examples of the normalization of anti-democratic politics from around the world. In closing, I shall argue that the “democratic dilemma” (how can democracy defend itself against willful destructiveness without itself flouting the rule of law?) has important implications for the practice of psychoanalysis.

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  DAY 2:
  

  Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm | Semple Mansion Carriage House

  Trauma as a Way of LIfe in a Psychoanalytic Institute 

  Drawing on a chapter of the same name published in Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship (Routledge, 2014), Dr. Levin will discuss his explorations of the underlying connection between these three significant problem areas in the psychoanalytic profession: (1) the difficulties in the governance and transmission of psychoanalysis, (2) the slipperiness of psychoanalytic ethics, and (3) the relation of the profession to the psychological conundrum of trauma. Dr. Levin attests that the deadening in psychoanalytic thought of attention to traumatic rupture as a relational phenomenon has allowed the profession, until recently, to continue splitting off and disavowing the trauma of its own institutional life. Everyone connected to the psychoanalytic community suffers from this crippling dissociative process in one way or another, but on the professional side it is the candidates who are affected the most (Wallace, 2007). Their psychological abuse by the training analyst system constitutes the greatest loss to the future of psychoanalysis, with all its varied potential to contribute to human welfare.

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• Colleague Assistance Committee Ethics Education Event

  • When
    November 09, 2024
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    9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Semple Mansion Carriage House

  
  

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  The MPSI Colleague Assistance Committee will lead attendees through a study of various artificial vignettes in an effort to expand our ability to talk about and address ethical dilemmas in our community. Further details forthcoming.

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• Fall Conference: Integrating Community and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychosis

  • When
    November 23, 2024

  

  This conference is in development through collaboration with the Minnesota Branch of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-MN). ISPS-US promotes psychological and social approaches to states of mind often called "psychosis" by providing education, training, advocacy, and opportunities for dialogue between service providers, people with lived experience, family members, activists, and researchers. Presentations and discussions will inform about transformative approaches to psychosis integrating psychoanalysis, community service providers, and the greater social network supporting individuals receiving care and services. 

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• Clinical Moments with Kirby Ogden

  • When
    December 07, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Semple Mansion Carriage House

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